Salvatore Cipolletta, whose daughter Cristina married young Yemeni Haidar Rohay Ahmed Al-Tawil,Â shot dead his son-in-lawÂ after seeing him butcher a lamb on the family’s dinner table under his own grandchildren’s eyes.

Of course, considering that this is a multi-million-animal slaughter – on Eid, 7.5 million animals are sacrificed every year in Pakistan alone –, by the theory of probability some incident or another is bound to happen.

A few reports are coming from Italy, where Muslims are, alas – oops I meant Insha’Allah – rapidly multiplying.Â Il Giornale di Vicenza, a local paper in the region of Venice, says about theÂ halal slaughter on Eid:

The ceremony takes place in front of the family, with the children in the front row: it is not considered a macabre spectacle because Muslims witness it from an early age and it’s part of the religious tradition.

But a grandad disagreed. An Italian man, Salvatore Cipolletta, whose daughter Cristina married young Yemeni Haidar Rohay Ahmed Al-Tawil,Â shot dead his son-in-lawÂ after seeing him butcher a lamb on the family’s dinner table under his own grandchildren’s eyes.

While in Italy the number of marriages, and in particular church weddings, has reached historic lows, mixed marriages between Italians and immigrants have steadily increased.

The climate of violence that surrounds Islam in so many of its doctrines, characteristics and rituals can only generate more, interminable violence in an endless cycle.

A festive family celebration having, rather than a visit to a theme park or a trip to the cinema, an animal slaughter show without the benefit of pre-stunning as entertainment and education for the children is likely to produce adults who will not abhor blood and savagery but will find them normal: which may be what the original intention behind these rituals actually was.

Hat tip to Vale Ramone.

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